Dream in colour, create in fabric, thread, yarn, words, whatever you have to hand
This year I have joined Four-in-Art. Four-in-Art, is a small group with the stated common desire to: ‘break out of the usual gridded experience and try a new concept, free of structure or preconception, moving the boundaries of our own skills forward in both concept and technique’.The overall theme for this year is colour and […]
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Because a heap of words is too many and not enough… Some pencils… a picture… and a few words of Joachim Roncin – the French Stylist who created this: “This is what Je Suis Charlie actually means: I am free, I am not afraid.” * * * * * * * Janine @ Rainbow Hare
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My regular readers are probably fed up of seeing this quilt because I only made it about a week ago and I blogged about it last week. If I’d thought about it, I should have waited for a few days before posting but I’ve decided to enter my Magical Midwinter Quilt into the Blogger’s Quilt […]
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Edited to add: I now have a BQF post of this quilt with its story, here :) Janine @ Rainbow Hare
Read More…It’s cold and dark and raining and I’ve realised I won’t be here during daylight hours until it’s too late to link up with the exciting Holiday Memories Mini Quilt Competition over at Celtic Thistle Stitches so, despite my plans to show sunny garden photos of this mini quilt (18″ diameter), I’ve ended up taking indoor […]
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34″ x 47.5″ Exactly one month ago I received my wonderful Free Two Be top. You can see more detail pictures (unquilted) here. I thought about adding borders with the siggy blocks but, as I want to hang this in my sewing room and it’s quite large already, I decided just to bind it in […]
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This week I’ve finished a Bee Block – Winged Square for Jess using a tutorial by Amy at During Quiet Time and Jess’ colour choices. I adore this block! And I added the sea bed, bottom layer to this for Jan. I also finished a small wall hanging – Eat, Sleep, Sew! And this is what […]
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Unfortunately, I finished this seconds too late to link up with Le Challenge! It began simply enough enough with some sketches… And an exciting new applique technique I read about on Karen’s blog. I found it was much less clunky than my usual freezer paper efforts and you can get an idea from the wings… …but […]
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I was wondering about what to enter into the Quilt Festival at Amy’s Creative Side and I suddenly remembered my ‘old man and the sea’ wall hanging. Unfortunately, I only have dull Winter photos because I made it in December and gave it to my son, who lives by the sea in Portsmouth. I’ve decided […]
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